Politics

[prozak at anus.com]

> >> Sweden?  Although try searching, say, "Sweden" and
> >> "socialism" on the net, and you'll get all sorts of
> >> alarmist articles (or, at any rate, you'll get many
> >> repostings of the same few).  But, hey, it's hardly
> >> Cuba, or China, much less the former Soviet Union or
> >> GDR.  Guaranteed stewardesses for everybody ...
> > 
> > People living there seem to have a lot of impetus to make metal music
> > - violent metal music. Too much balance can be aggro.
> > 
> There seems to be an ostensible white supremacist undercurrent to a lot of
> the Scandinavian metal. Odd, since they're playing rock'n'roll, though I'm
> sure there is some specious argument tracing those lead guitar solos back to
> Celtic or Nordic modes and not African pentatonics. I find this disturbing.
> You would know more about it than me O' Pestilential One. I question how
> much "balance" there is in Sweden. Fill me in.

Well, if you wanted to avoid "white supremacists" and still listen to 
Swedish metal...

Death:
At the Gates
Therion
Carnage
Dismember
Suffer
Entombed

Black:
Bathory
Sacramentum
Throne of Ahaz

Related:
Asphyx (The Netherlands)
Sinister (The Netherlands)
Intestine Baalism (Japan)

Just a few there...

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Backup Rider of the Apocalypse
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